Course detail

Building Materials and Geology

FAST-AI001Acad. year: 2024/2025

Basic information about structure, basic building material properties and their use as building materials. Methods of testing physical–mechanical properties and durability characteristics with focus on destructive methods. Basic deformational characteristics of building materials and their monitoring. Properties of building materials: stone, aggregate, binder, concrete, mortar, building ceramics, metal, timber, polymers and asphalts. Practical laboratory tests of selected building materials. Acquiring knowledge of rock types creating foundation soil. Action of the internal and external geological factors affecting the properties and behaviour of foundation soil with a particular focus on the influence of surface and ground water. Acquiring knowledge of the evaluating methodology of foundation soils for construction in accordance with the current requirements of the practice and European standards.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Building Testing (SZK)

Entry knowledge

Plane geometry, stereometry, goniometric functions, units of physical quantities and their transfers, the fundamental laws of physics, mechanics of bodies

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Building materials properties acquainting and practising. Acquainting with geological and building’s foundation conditions. Student will be able to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.
Student will be able to realize the basic tests of various kinds of building materials.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction to building materials 2. Aggregate, building rock and rock products 3. Binders and mortar 4. Concrete and concrete products I. 5. Concrete and concrete products II . 6. Silicates and silicate products 7. Steel , metals and non-ferrous metals 8. Polymers , mastics and adhesives, etc. 9. Timber, timber products and construction 10. Geology I - Fundamentals of petrography 11. Geology II . - The effect of internal and external geological forces 12. Geology III . - Geological action of water and groundwater 13. Geology IV . - Assessment of ground soil for construction

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction to laboratory practice 2. – 3. Testing of aggregates for construction purposes 4. – 5. Testing of mortars and binders 6. Testing of hardened concrete 7. Testing of brickmaking products 8. Testing of building steel 9. Testing of polymers 10. Testing of timber 11. – 12. Geology 13. Overall summary, credit